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Show United States Department of the Interior National Park Service I National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 Erekson Artmo Dairy Farmhouse Name of Property OMB No. 1024-0018 Salt Lake County, Utah County and State She immigrated to Utah with her family in 1879. Norman and Ellen were married in March 1888, but did not have children until after the farmhouse was built. In the 1900 census enumeration, the household on 900 East included Norman and Ellen, a five-year-old son, Ellen's mother, Elizabeth Underwood, and a servant, Daniel Monk. Norman's occupation was farmer and stockman. Daniel Monk was a farm laborer. Norman and Ellen had a daughter in 1901 and another son in 1908. Only the daughter, Laveta, lived to maturity. The Ereksons had a large ranch in Tooele County. On the 1910 census, the family is listed with the two youngest children, Elizabeth Underwood, and two lodgers (probably ranch hands), in the Vernon Precinct of Tooele County. The household also included two lodger/laborers, The Salt Lake City directories list Norman W. Erekson on 900 East, so the family likely maintained both residences during the period. 4 Around 1911, Norman and Ellen Erekson moved their family to the neighborhood east of Murray's downtown business district. They lived in a couple different homes before settling on Wasatch Avenue. They sold the 900 East property in January 14, 1915, to Hyrum J. Jensen. Norman W . Erekson served as mayor of Murray between 1918 and 1919. Norman and Ellen moved to downtown Salt Lake City in the 1930s. Norman Wines Erekson died in Salt Lake City on April 6, 1945. Ellen Underwood Erekson returned to Benbow Street in Murray where she lived until her death on July 11, 1951. Hyrum Julius Jensen (1869-1953) was an extremely successful real estate developer and contractor. Jensen likely purchased the Erekson property as an investment. He and his wife, Bodell Christine Hansen Jensen (1868-1963), lived in the Sugarhouse area of Salt Lake City and did not live at the 900 East property. Erekson family tradition suggests that Italian renters may have lived in the house and worked the farm in the 1910s. This is possible since there are several Italian families who established truck farms in Murray in the early twentieth century. Although the 1920 census doest not provide addresses, it appears that a Dutch family was renting the house and working the dairy farm. German Struiksma (1888-1959), a dairyman, and his wife, Wibbina Jansje Grundmann Struiksma (1894-1983), immigrated to Utah from Holland in 1912 and 1905 respectively. They were married in Salt Lake City in 1914 and moved to Murray in 1918 or 1919. The Struiksma family was listed with three small children on the 1920 census, which was taken in January. The family eventually moved to San Diego in the late 1920s. On April 8, 1920, Hyrum J. and Bodell C. Jensen sold the property to John B. and Marguerite O. Erekson . John Benbow Erekson was born on September 25, 1874, the oldest son of Jonas and Isabella Erekson, and a half brother to Norman W. Erekson. As a young man, he worked as a grocer and started a fish hatchery business with his brother, William Benbow Erekson (1879-1947). The hatchery was located on the family property on Vine Street. On June 22, 1904, John married Marguerite Oberlander. Marguerite Elizabeth Oberlander was born in Muscatine, Iowa, on February 13, 1880. When she was about ten years-old, her father, John Oberlander (18401927) moved his family to Murray when he became the supervisor of the Germania smelter. John and Marguerite had three sons: Reid Benbow (born 1905), Arthur Beau (born 1906), and John Arion (born 1911). 4 The 1910 census of the area does not provide location infonnation, so it could not be detennined if the house was occupied or vacant. Section 8 page 13 |
